Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Ancient East of Eden has remained

East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century

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Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Ancient East of Eden has remainedNATIONAL BESTSELLER Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines" (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9 11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin.